Architects produce ideas, plans, blueprints -- concepts -- that, like Lewitt wall paintings, will be realized by others: executive architects, space planners, construction companies and such.
Looking, from some angles, like a doppelganger of Rem Koolhaas's CCTV building in Beijing, it is the work of Novosibirsk architects Space Structure, built to the requirements of the former governor of the region.
Also, "We've architected the entire space so all the walls fold over to use the main area as one massive continuous space for events that will be curated by artists, architects, and graphic designers".
The first location is this beautiful, newly-architected space that just opened in Ubud, with another one in Miami coming in May.
"The world is filled with billions of people, and most of them live in conditions where they will never see an architect or an architect-designed space," he said.
As a person enters the architect's space he measures it in terms of the degree and the quality of his potential for movement.
Designed by the Tsais with help from Debbie Durland, an architect, the space is broken up by wood-framed screens and a graceful moon gate with splashing fountain.
The experience of spending a night in an architect-designed space is limited usually to those lucky enough to own one, or to afford a top-end boutique hotel.
Zimmerman says there are "strange and wonderful overlaps" like the idea of "spaces of possibility": "The way an architect structures space through material is very much like the way a game designer structures behavior through game rules," Zimmerman explains. .
He was also one of the first architects to incorporate his design aesthetic into every detail of his buildings, conceiving complementary interiors, built-in furniture, light fixtures and stained glass employing himself as an architect of space, not just of structure.
